- […] I will rise / After a thousand years / lipping / flowers / And set my teeth in the silver of the moon. ― E.E. Cummings
- Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you. — Deepka Chopra
- Even the city carries ruins in its heart. / Longs to be touched in places / only it remembers. — Anne Michaels
- I am obscure to myself. I let myself happen. I unfold only in the now. I am rudely alive. ― Clarice Lispector
- I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. — Emil Cioran
- I had two desires: desire to be safe and desire to feel. ― Louise Glück
- I want to create poems that make you want to celebrate in one breath at the same time they make you want to mourn. — Danez Smith
- It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Huge Laurie
- Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself. — Nishan Panwar
- Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out. ― Sophocles
- Poet as giver. Poet as dichotomy. Poet as perennial mess. Poet as burned-at-own-stake. Poet as / canvas and brush. Poet as borderland. ― Irene Vazquez
- She no longer cared if she had a heart or a hole, she no longer cared if she was whole or hollow, she just wanted to move on with whatever she had become and find life somewhere else. — VaZaki Nada
- Sometimes you have to take your own hand as though you were a lost child and bring yourself stumbling home over twisted ice. — Louise Erdrich
- Take a body, dump it, drive. Take a body, maybe your own, and dump it gently. All your dead, unfinished selves and dump them gently. Take only what you need. — Richard Siken
- The feeling of belonging nowhere that comes to people who belong everywhere. — Zadie Smith
- To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time. ― Margaret Atwood
- To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. — Kurt Vonnegut
- You have to be the kind of person who can make the best out of a Tuesday. You know those people who live for the weekends? They’re wishing their life away. You have to find something worth living for or else you’ll look back and realize you’ve wasted your life away. — Drew Marvin
- You will become a graveyard of all the women you once were before you rise one morning in your own skin. You will swallow a thousand different names before you taste the meaning held within your own. — Maza Dohta
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